Indeed, so extreme is the anti-pesticide noise that we are in danger of plundering our food output and increasing our dependency on Europe for generations ahead. Moreover, Europe is determined to line up Africa in its camp, funding it to ban pest control as a ‘precaution’,Take bees. Cambridge University, for instance, has reported that commercial bees, which are different from Europe’s wild bees, have been weakened by their lack of genetic diversity and in exploded numbers are competing for resources with wild bees, pushing them out of existence too. It has far fewer commercial bees, and those it has still intermix with its wild bees, which scientists say is the main reason their numbers are not collapsing. The public understands (and sends donations on) simple messages, and what can get simpler than ‘pesticides are killing bees’.

Source: The Star March 16, 2021 00:56 UTC